First concert taken to - ABBA, Football Park, 1977. Do have some memories of it, but not a lot.

Would hate to think how many Little River Band concerts I was taken to by Mum as a child. At one concert, at Festival Theatre in around 1978, we were front row, centre, and Glenn Shorrock hoisted me on stage with the band because "he is singing along to every word of the song" (Help Is On Its Way), and I remember this clearly. How loud the band were stuck in my mind at the time.

First concert I went to by myself, no parents - Johnny Diesel and The Injectors, Thebarton Theatre 1988, supported by the Georgia Satellites. Remains one of the best shows I've ever seen, in one of the smokiest, most stifling conditions I can remember. I lost count after 20, how many women were carried out of the arena affected by smoke from the special effects.

Scrappy wrote:A Mum was it the Largs Pier Hotel where Barnes played with Cold Chisel in the late70s ?

I'm not that old Scrappy Late 70's I was still a wee child..lol.

No - it was after his Cold Chisel days - I have a feeling it might have been somewhere in the city - maybe even the tennis arenas?Just can't remember I know the second or third one was at Thebarton Oval - I took my little sister to that one - that was her first concert.

The first gig I actually 'attended' was in the mid 70s , and funny how things panned out for me

I was a teenager and took my hot French girlfriend there on a dateShe insisted on wanting to go thereI was to later find out she had the hots for the drummer at the timeI could have married that gorgeous thing , but we went seperate waysShe went back to France, I stayed in Adelaide

Funny how things work outAlmost a decade later I met a gal , we ended up getting hitchedThe irony of it all is that the wife is related to 2 of the members of that Angels band !

As for the concertI had no conception of who the Keystone Angels were at the timeI didnt even know they were playing that nightI reckon they were loud, and the music was good though

I think the very first concert I saw was The Bee Gees at the Apollo Stadium which of course no longer exists.This was in 1971 when they just made a comeback after splitting up a couple of years before. They started to appear on the music charts again with such hits as "Lonely Days", "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" plus others, of course only a few years later they were to become one of the most successful pop groups of all time.

The first gig I actually 'attended' was in the mid 70s , and funny how things panned out for me

I was a teenager and took my hot French girlfriend there on a dateShe insisted on wanting to go thereI was to later find out she had the hots for the drummer at the timeI could have married that gorgeous thing , but we went seperate waysShe went back to France, I stayed in Adelaide

Funny how things work outAlmost a decade later I met a gal , we ended up getting hitchedThe irony of it all is that the wife is related to 2 of the members of that Angels band !

As for the concertI had no conception of who the Keystone Angels were at the timeI didnt even know they were playing that nightI reckon they were loud, and the music was good though

Adelaide Hawk wrote:Skyhooks at Memorial Drive, must have been around 1971 or 1972.

A band that I will always regret never seeing play live, but that concert would have been later than that, AH - the band didn't form until 1973. Leaping Lindner would be a good one to ask this one, but I'd guess that gig was around late 1974 at the earliest.

Adelaide Hawk wrote:Skyhooks at Memorial Drive, must have been around 1971 or 1972.

A band that I will always regret never seeing play live, but that concert would have been later than that, AH - the band didn't form until 1973. Leaping Lindner would be a good one to ask this one, but I'd guess that gig was around late 1974 at the earliest.

Saw Skyhooks at the Ausmusic90 at Thebarton Oval in 1990. I was about 16 years old. With Boom Crash Opera, Angry Anderson, The Angels, Roxus and Seven Stoires.

It was around the Jukebox in Siberria era. Still to this day, it is one of the greatest gigs I have ever seen. They really did put on a great show with good music and a bit of comical refief too!